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The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be read more
The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he read more
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old read more
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are read more
Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to read more
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they read more
It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
